Onward Nation

America's best podcast for learning how today's top business owners Think, Act, & Achieve. Onward Nation is a five-day-a-week podcast hosted by Stephen Woessner, CEO of Predictive ROI. Business owners share the most influential lessons learned throughout their careers, including insights into their daily habits, their most vital priorities that have contributed to their business and personal success, and the most challenging time or situation that could have devastated or even ruined their businesses or careers. Business owners share their "recipes for success" including those systems they wish they had put into practice inside their business when first starting out. Each episode concludes with guests sharing two or three practical and tactical strategies they would recommend to brand new business owners in order to best ensure success in their new business and careers. Onward Nation provides business owners with the strategies and tactical step-by-step "recipe" that will help anyone make their business more systematic, predictable, measurable, and repeatable.

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Murray Priestley is a partner at Global Private Partners, a private equity investment firm based in Hong Kong. Since 1988, he’s provided executive level management to a range of businesses. Working from an in-depth understanding of financial markets, information technology & customer service, Murray has bridged the gap between strategy & operational requirements. He’s also the author of two books, including “The Great Business Shape-up” and “The $1 million Pay Day”.

What you will learn in this episode:

Why the biggest problem with most small businesses is often the owner

Helping expand your customer base by stepping back to focus on the big picture

Why having multiple centralized systems in place is important

Preventing a communication breakdown between you and your employees

Split testing: what is it and how can it help your business grow

How most businesses fail to take advantage of every marketing opportunity

As a business owner, why it’s important to be honest with yourself regarding your business

How to master asking yourself the right questions in your business

Knowing the right time to move on from an opportunity that is no longer working

Focusing on the thing you are best at and not trying to be everything to everybody